The ceramic-core design of the X-quisite transducer requires a strong magnet circuit in order to achieve reasonable output voltage. It took us many prototype setups and listening sessions before we found the perfect solution to be a Neodymium-Armco combination with special measures to reduce eddy current loss to an absolute minimum.
The generator unit is entirely built into an aluminium-holder, ensuring the mechanical energy-flow between tonearm and transducer to be as direct as possible. The holder is covered by a freeform-shaped enclosure, whose material and surface are sonically carefully matched to the characteristic of the different models.
By combining various modern production methods, we found a way in producing smallest ceramic parts precisely and exactly according our preferences. By designing the cantilever itself partly hollow and with octagonal cross section, we achieve extreme high rigidity for the entire cantilever/coil-body unit.
The stylus is exactly fitted into a counter-form of the cantilever and fixed with tiny quantities of a technical adhesive. Overall, the moving mass at the tracking point is with 0,8mg very low for an MC design.
The coil material – copper, silver or gold with high purity grade - defines the tonal characteristic of the different X-quisite models. The winding technology is specifically adapted to individual core technology.
The X-quisite cartridge comes carefully packed in a wooden box, made of a walnut tree, grown in our closest neighbourhood in the Tösstal.